Have you ever heard of David Duke? Well I hadn't until Oli, my flatmate, told me about a couple of shocking CNN interviews on youtube where he claims that the US media is controlled by Zionists who are trying to manipulate Americans and that the US government is riddled with Jewish extremists. He actually denies, even if indirectly, that the Holocaust has ever happened and calls Wolf Blitzer an agent of Zionism working for AIPAC.
I wanted to write about this, because I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. There are actually thousands, if not millions of people who still believe that the Holocaust has never happened but that it was all made up by Jews. How can you possibly believe that? There are facts, numbers, contemporary witnesses etc..It's evident!!
David Duke is a former leader of the KKK who, 30 years later, was elected into the House of Representatives in Louisiana. He participated in the Holocaust conference which took place last year in December in Tehran, Iran. In his speech he claimed that the conference was dedicated to freedom of speech. He said that Europeans were suppressed and imprisoned for simply voicing their opinion. Anyone could freely question and deny Jesus Christ, but would be locked up if they were in doubt about a tiny part of the Holocaust. Duke argues that the only way to discuss what happened in the past is freedom of speech. On Duke's website you can read and listen to even more bullshit. In his welcome video he states that the Iraq war is not a war for Americans or American security but plainly a war for Israel. Let me quote David Duke: "If you are truly open-minded, if you are not afraid to go wherever the truth will lead you, if you like to think for yourself, you will love this website."
For me it's rather shocking how many people believe in what this guy says. If you read the comments about Duke on youtube you'll find hundreds of anti-semitists who argue with the most ridiculous and pathetic statements.
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This guy turns my stomach.
I guess racists are everywhere. I just finished an interesting book by Barack Obama. Do you know who he is? He's a US senator from Illinois, happens to have had an African father, and is planning to run for President (if Hillary lets him).
I'm not sure Americans are ready for a black man or (any color) woman, but I would like to think that America is a place where such people can make it to the top and people like Duke have to go to anti-Semitic Iran to find a receptive audience.
I did a little research and apparently American Jews are "over-represented in Congress.
13/100 Senate
43/435 House
When you consider that Jews only make up around 1.8% of the US population, this indicates that there is clearly not a big problem with bigotry in America.
(Austria by the way only has 9000 Jews left= 0.11%) Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/jewpop.html
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